Wide
Format Scanners, the new Generation.
All
kinds of wide format scanners are available today to digitize
maps, old architectural drawings, sketches, paintings, or
any graphic work. The new generation of wide format scanners
can scan documents of many sizes, either as sheet fed or roll
fed. You can easily find sheet-fed wide format scanners up
to 40 inches wide.
Action
Imaging Solutions, ANAtech, Colortrac, Tangent, and Vidar
Systems Corp. are just a few of the wide range of companies
who manufacture professional quality wide format scanners.
Action
Imaging Solutions is one of the larger of the wide format
scanner companies.
At
the left, the booth of Action Imaging Solutions at the PMA
trade show in Las Vegas. At the right, a detail of a scanned
image (original looks better before it had to be JPEGed to
fit onto the Internet).
I
subsequently inspected the ACTion booth at the CeBIT computer
trade show in Germany (March 2000).
Altek
Corporation, ColorScanner III, has a large format color scanning
system, 40" scan width, 800 dpi, scan to print. But I
do not know much about this company.
Vidar
Systems Corporation now has a nice scan-to-print situation
with ColorSpan printers. If you want more information on wide
format sheet-fed and roll-fed scanners, contact John Dusenberry,
e-mail jed@vidar.com.
Since
FLAAR has two ColorSpan printers we are especially interested
in the Vidar solution.
Vidar wide format scanner
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